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Blogging about R Audio recording of this talk is on: R-statistics.com R-statistics.com (tal.galili@gmail.com) Tal Galili [1] [1] Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Talk outline • Why? • Benefits • Starting • Starting • Writing • Promoting

~100 R bloggers http://www.r - bloggers.com/blogs - list/

# Posts per month Post types: • News • Tutorials • Tutorials • Code snippets • Case study’s

~100 R bloggers ~100 R bloggers > 2000 readers

R blogging R blogging is big

Why do bloggers do it? • Writing is gratifying • Readers appreciation is motivating • Trust worthy online identity • Trust worthy online identity (“connections”) • Audience (“Conversion” ?)

What does the community gain? • Quality content • More connections • More connections (faster communication) • Increased visibility to R-project (on google/media)

How to: Start blogging Start blogging

Where to Blog ? WordPress WordPress VS blogger (blogspot) http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html

Wordpress.com

Open new blog http://wordpress.com

Open new blog http://wordpress.com

Open new blog

Open new blog Remember: press the activation link in your e-mail box

Layout

Layout

Layout

Layout

Layout

Setup

Setup

Setup

Setup

Setup

Setup Set your comments free!

Setup

Setup

Setup

Setup: recommended widgets

Manage: change design

Manage Manage: change design

Setup: Edit your “about” page

Manage: you can map a domain for 10$/year

How to: Write your blog Write your blog

Write: Edit/create posts

Write: Edit posts (add text images and more)

Write: add image to post

Write: Schedule post (and more)

Embed video

Embed video

Embed presentatin http://slideshare.net/

Embed HUGE images http://seadragon.com/

Write: interactive graphics - animation “animation” package - for animation gif This morning: Yihui Xie Yihui Xie Creating Animations with R

Write: interactive graphics (one day)

Write: interactive graphics

Add R code : .r files?

Add R code - Sharing code/files https://www.dropbox.com/

Add R code : syntax highlighting From: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/

Add R code: syntax highlighting For self hosted wordpress: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/02/r-syntax- highlight-on-your-blog-a-wordpress-plugin/

Manage: categories

Manage: tags

Usage: comments

How to blog • Time - Post regularly • Quality • Keep it simple • Give context (“package updates”) • Avoid Typos • Avoid Typos • Connect • Link out • Conversation

How to: Promote your blog Promote your blog

Think off-line • Tell friends (face to face / phone) • Business cards • In your presentations • Conference badge • Conference badge • Sign on office door • URL in package help files? • Street signs (maybe not) • …?

Tell your (online) “friends” • E-mails • mass e-mail (with caution!) • signature • Twitter � • Twitter � • Facebook • status updates • share button

Tell the woRld: tags

Tell the woRld: reddit.com/ Statistics ,machinelearning , visualization ,programming

Tell the woRld : Hackers news

Tell the woRld : Twitter (#rstats / #user2010) p.s: there is a twitter package … (with a talk by Drew?)

Tell the woRld : directories http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Statistics/Software/S/R/

Tell the woRld : Wiki’s http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming http://www.wikipedia.org/

Tell the woRld : help list/ forums R mailing list http://stats.stackexchange.com/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r http://metaoptimize.com/qa/ (maybe)

Tell the woRld : R-bloggers.com

Tell the woRld : R-bloggers.com (Because the world has too many Pirate bloggers!)

Collaborate! Share readers to get readers • Link to other bloggers • Guest posts

Update your readers • E-mail subscription • RSS subscription

Update your readers • Facebook fan page subscription • Create a page for your blog • Add your blog’s feed in the facebook page “notes” • Add the fan page widget to your sidebar

Update your readers Twitter + facebook status updates of new blog posts new blog posts

Twitter (#rstats) -> feedburner http://feedburner.com

Twitter -> facebook

“SEO” Search engine optimization Search engine optimization

“SEO” - Help google searchers • Titles – simple and descriptive • Find words for posts – • Google keywords tool • Google suggest (R code*) • Google suggest (R code*) * http://www.r-chart.com/2010/07/what-search-engines-think-people-want.html

Measure yourself: site analytics The best blog I know on webanalytics: http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

Measure yourself: google alerts http://www.google.com/alerts

Help:

Help:

Help: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/

http://www.r - project.org/ blog ?

Follow/Contact me: R-statistics.com (tal.galili@gmail.com) Thank you ! Tal Galili [1] [1] Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel.